AT&T has finally confirmed it is impacted by a data breach affecting 73 million current and former customers after initially denying the leaked data originated from them.

AT&T has finally confirmed it is impacted by a data breach affecting 73 million current and former customers after initially denying the leaked data originated from them.

  • RestrictedAccount@lemmy.worldEnglish
    37·
    8 months ago

    I just got a notification that includes

    It appears the data is from more than 4 years ago and does not contain personal financial information or call history.

    And later it says

    What information was involved? The information varied by customer and account, but may have included full name, email address, mailing address, phone number, social security number, date of birth, AT&T account number and passcode.

    What do they have that they consider personal if this doesn’t qualify?

    • thantik@lemmy.worldEnglish
      8·
      8 months ago

      “financial information” being…how much you paid. That’s why they worded it so precisely. “personal financial information”. They made it sound like “personal information”, so you skip over reading the rest.